Synonyms for fodder
ˈfɒd ərfod·der

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. foddernoun

   Synonyms:
   provender

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. fodder

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cannon fodder, fodder, fresh fishnoun

   soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

   Synonyms:
   fresh fish, cannon fodder

2. fodderverb

   coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

   Synonyms:
   fresh fish, cannon fodder

3. fodderverb

   give fodder (to domesticated animals)

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. foddernoun

   Synonyms:
   forage, food (for cattle), provender

2. fodderverb

   Synonyms:
   feed (cattle)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. foddernoun

   Synonyms:
   provender, forage, stover, ensilage

   Associated words:
   silo, ensile

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "fodder":

   forage, forages, feed, radish

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1. Alicia Witt:

   The circumstances around my parents’ sudden passings have become fodder for press, and there are some misconceptions rolling around - understandably so, this is very delicate for me to write because i’m wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly. there’s an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life - that privacy has been stripped away in death.

2. Hayden Mora:

   I believe that the more people who know transgender people, the more they will understand, accept and support us, that happens only if they acknowledge our humanity, and not treat us like tabloid fodder.

3. Ayn Rand:

   So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify it -- there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

4. Alessandro Chiarenza:

   Now we know that they probably had more bird-like metabolisms and adaptations, allowing them to survive harsher environments, and for herbivorous dinosaurs to survive on a lower supply of fodder.

5. Paul Mumford:

   Many roads are closed so we can't get fodder to farmers who need feed, the fires have primarily killed the youngest in the herd. It will take years to rebuild.